Rejected Appeal: 76561197999414128 - (Crucifox / BANNED BY SR)

Appeal for BANNED BY SR

Steam profile: 76561197999414128 (Crucifox)

Appeal Plea: I committed the offense(s), I admit it
Appeal Reason: [Change of Heart] I will never scam again.

Victim Repayment: No, but I will repay. I need help finding the victim(s)
Previous Appeals: No, this is my first appeal here​

Alternate or Related Accounts:

Use: No idea, got tagged as an alt but I haven't logged in or used this maybe ever. No clue what the password is even.

| steamname: Critwood
| steam3ID: [U:1:86447061]
| steamID32: STEAM_0:1:43223530
| steamID64: https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198046712789
| customURL: https://steamcommunity.com/id/Critwood
| steamrep: https://steamrep.com/profiles/76561198046712789

Use: My first steam account, has some games on it, I can log in to this but I haven't in over 9 years.

| steamname: OG Crucifox
| steam3ID: [U:1:35856929]
| steamID32: STEAM_0:1:17928464
| steamID64: https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197996122657
| customURL: https://steamcommunity.com/id/Sp1ash_Att4ck
| steamrep: https://steamrep.com/profiles/76561197996122657

Use: Dota 2 smurf account to play with lowbie friends. Haven't used in 8 years. Don't know password. Haven't even played Dota 2 in over a year.

| steamname: Defense of the Greevils
| steam3ID: [U:1:117669848]
| steamID32: STEAM_0:0:58834924
| steamID64: https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198077935576
| customURL: https://steamcommunity.com/id/CTHMK
| steamrep: https://steamrep.com/profiles/76561198077935576​

Appeal description:

At the time I was trying to turn a buck doing Dota 2 trades, but the market was weak. Having come from TF2 trading, which was much more robust and developed, I was used to making frequent trades at all value levels. I was very successful and had a great time with TF2 playing and trading and making friends.

Roaring into Dota 2 like it was the same environment was a mistake. I didn't want to be disillusioned even when I started to realize the truth, so I just kept cutting margins and working harder. This led to risky trades which, eventually, got me burned. Whether I get laughed at for this or not, since I have to 'make a case' here, let me vent: Attached picture is me getting f✿✿✿✿✿✿ robbed.

I don't know if it was my fault or my brothers, but shortly after letting him play Dota 2 unsupervised on my PC(he was 16), this happened. I didn't take it out on him, I just went to Steam Support and they refused to restore the items to me.

TL;DR: Genuine Monarch Bow = $500
Genuine Demon Shard = $200
Couple of Arcanas & 10 keys = $100 or whatever who cares
+bunch of other dogshit of various value at the time

I didn't know what to do. After a week of tension waiting for Steam to """Support""" me just to be shot down, I lost my cool and lashed out. Of course there's no excuse for filthy behavior but I started to see the Dota 2 trade market as it's own entity and I wanted my pound of flesh back. In a stupid moment of weakness I decided to inflict the same pain I experienced on someone else.

As you can see from my Steamrep, I took a whopping $15 from someone before I woke up and decided to deal with my feelings some other way. Anyway, by the time I found out I was marked as a scammer I didn't give a f✿✿✿ because I had decided I was done trading, it wasn't fun anymore and Dota 2 was more than enough anger all on it's own. This was nine years ago. I was 23. I'm now 33.

My trading losses don't matter to me anymore because I paid all those investments back three-fold through hard work, Dota 2 economy be-damned-and-burn-in-hell. I've had half a dozen jobs and ran two(legitimate) businesses since then. I could have wiped my ass with the $15 ten years ago, it was never about the money, it was emotional. If the guy I scammed comes online and gives me a paypal address I'll send him $20 and a kiss.

So why am I appealing? 'Cause I can't use Scrap.tf.
I reinstalled TF2 after like 8 years and there are a bunch of new weapons I wanna try. Didn't know I was still banned or that I could appeal.

TBH if Steamrep doesn't unban me I'm just gonna make an alt to mule refined for some TF2 weapons. I don't know if I'll ever bother trading """"seriously"""" again, I'm kinda well past that age. I have a job that pays better lmao.

My appeal is also a hand stretched out to the market. If you wanna slap the back of my hand with a ruler and be salty, then fine. The market deserves that chance. It's no one's fault I got scammed but the scammers and mine. But if you wanna shake my hand and let me back in, then cool. The market deserves that chance too.​